Firstly, the pistol still utilizes parts from the original Legion, but the TXG grip module is shorter to accommodate the3.9 slide…the pistol also comes with three 17-round magazines with the Legion logo at the bottom and an aluminum base pad…Being a 320 Legion, this Sig Sauer 9mm pistol has a skeletonized trigger for a light trigger pull that breaks at 90 degrees…
The above descriptions are excerpted details used by stylized gun magazines and sellers for the type of weapon used by a 15-year-old who killed at least four people yesterday at his Michigan high school. I included them in this story to head off and satisfy the distractors to opinion pieces written about the runaway gun violence in America, who say, you do not know what you are talking about. Comments usually start with— you called it an automatic—it is a semi-automatic—yadda, yadda, yadda. The discussion then veers into guns don’t kill people… You have heard it all before.
I am a grandfather to twelve, eight of which are school age(kindergarten through college), and when school shooting alerts light up my cell phone screen, I hold my breath for the details. Not for the gory particulars or the video of running, panicked children but for the name and location of the school. When it is not a school one of your loved ones’ attends, that immediate sense of relief is replaced by sorrow and dread. Sorrow for the families of the dead and the dreaded question; is my child’s luck running out?
Thoughts and Prayers…
At one point, thoughts and prayers would immediately fill the airwaves from gun enthusiasts after school shootings because the pro-gun faction knew that inserting God, along with the words flag and freedom, covered all sins. An interesting phenomenon happened after 26 people, including twenty-first graders, were massacred in 2012 at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut. As he delivered the horrific news to the public, then-President Barack Obama cried at the dais. He paused and repeatedly dabbed and wiped away tears. His eyes welled throughout his remarks, his voice cracked, and most Americans finally wanted more than thoughts and prayers. “As a country, we have been through this too many times…” he said. He went on to list the litany of past shootings, and his voice broke. When he spoke of his children, that moment of sorrow and dread was made real for him. What he did not do was give the gunners the obligatory moment of thoughts and prayers, the diversion they needed to stop sensible gun control, by saying it is too soon to talk about it.
The new idea was to introduce to the general public the term “false flag.” People like the despicable Alex Jones accused the President of staging a fake incident and, by default, hiring crisis actors to perpetrate a hoax on America to take your guns away. Mr. Jones recently lost a liable case over his absurd allegations and mental torture of the parents who lost their children at Sandy Hook. We will keep spinning on this wheel of misfortune until we exercise enough common sense to say we have too many guns, too much access, and cowards in Congress not willing to stop it. It is not a violation of one’s Constitutional rights to save our children. We can do something about moments of Sorrow and Dread.
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